piece every day. and that's it for today. have a great week. and we'll see you next fox news sunday. >> on our seven year anniversary today, congratulations to the team and thank you to our audience. i'm maria bartiromo. coming up, the beijing smackdown, joe biden's state department gets schooled by the chinese communist party in their first face-to-face meeting in alaska. the former director of national intelligence, ric grenell is here, on what the raw intelligence says about china and it's efforts to divide and conquer the free world. plus senator ron johnson on who is compromised by the communists and why he will not be silenced by the left wing mob. plus, the bullying never stops, breaking news this morning from

democrat turned republican congressman jeff van drew after a democrat operative in the media threatened him on his home phone. listen. >> since your betrayal of our party and treasonness loyalty to the worst dejen rest that ever occupied the presidency in the united states history, i can only say that i would swear to your demise as a politician. >> more on the chilling tape this morning, now the hands of the capitol police. that's coming up. plus, death and despair as the biden border crisis deepens, thousands of migrants flooding into the country every day with texas governor greg abbott demanding answer as he told us last weekend on this program. >> the border pa toll officers themselves told me they informed the biden administration that

because of the policy changes, it was going to lead to this massive surge that we are just now beginning to see, knowing it's going to be getting far worse in the coming months. they also said that the reason for the change, the reason for the increase in the influx, is because of the policy change by the biden administration. >> coming up, former white house advisor steven miller on whether the president is in over his head and will he discuss the elephant in the room this thursday at his first press conference since taking office, now two months ago. all that and more as we look ahead on sunday morning futures. ♪ >> first this morning, the democrats bold and swift power grab, we made a point each week of highlighting the radical policies and what republicans across the country are doing to fight back against this agenda. wisconsin senator ron johnson is among the loudest voices calling

out p president biden and now the democrats are trying to slander him and silence him. new jersey senator rob it menendez called senator johnson a racist on the senate floor over remarks he made about the january sixth capitol attack. senator johnson says it's part of their playbook and he won't back down. he joins me this morning. thank you for joining me. >> good morning, maria. >> tell me about that incident on the senate floor. you were not there. can you respond to menendez calling you racist? >> well, unfortunately democrats and liberals engage in a character assassination and they reflexively play the race card primarily to silence their critics or silence anybody that they don't want their viewpoint spread around. so the reason -- there's two reasons they're silencing me. they view the wisconsin senate

seat in 2022 as vulnerable. they would like to complete the socialization of america. also, i'm one of the few people pushing back on their inaccurate narrative that there were thousands of armed insurrectionists intent on overthrowing the government on january sixth. i've condemned what happened. what i was doing, i was comparing what happened on january 6th to the over 500 riots that occurred during the summer basically left wing that resulted in up to 25 lives lost, 700 law enforcement officers injured, 1 to $2 billion worth of property damage. they want us to forget those riots which continue to this day and they want to silence their critics and they do it by refleck i'vely playing the race card. there was nothing racial in my comments whatsoever. >> the media is complicit in this regard, driving the bus on all of this for the democrat agenda. i'll point out what took place

this week. the washington post had to admit that it misquoted president trump in a massive georgia election story that was used against him during the impeachment and then one by one media networks followed saying well we independently confirmed that president trump said find the fraud. we actually got the tape this past week and there was no such language that president trump used on that phone call with the georgia election official. i'll also point out that what we're seeing from a federal judge alleging that democrats are close to controlling all major news outlets. did you see the federal judge story that the democrat party is close to controlling all of the media, the d.c. circuit court judge outlined his opposition to the supreme court's key decision in a 1964 new york times versus sullivan piece. your reaction? >> well, i did see an article on that.

i haven't read the opinion myself. but i think we have known for a long time that the mainstream media, social media is part and parcel of the democrat party. everybody complains about russian interference in the 2016 election. now in the 2020 election, it pales in comparison to the interference, the censorship of the mainstream media. they did everything they can including suppressing information on hunter biden to make sure he won. their spear ferns in the -- interference in the election is something they won't own up to. half of america doesn't trust them because of their bias. i support a free press. it those be an unbiased press. we're at a dangerous moment in american history where we don't have an unbiased press. we have a biased one that has chosen sides. i appreciate judge silverman's opinions. >> now the democrats are continuing to weaponize race.

you were called that name from menendez. they're trying to appear that their election reform bill has anything to do with race, senator. remember president obama you'll eulogizing john lewis last year, calling it a relic of jim crowe. they're saying they want to remove the filibuster. they're talking about their hr1 bill being apparently helping the minority community. i interviewed candace owens on this. listen to what candace owens says about how the democrats are trying to sell hr1 and then i want to get into hr1 with you. they're trying to sell it as a civil rights bill. watch this. >> i'm so tired of black americans, hispanic americans being used to further the democrat power and everything that the democrats want to do and we've seen this time and time again. it's always a game of link which

is particulars, they tell you it's going to help you, combat voter suppression. votes are not being suppressed. the left make it sound good but they're actually after the exact opposite. when i hear them say they're trying to combat voter suppression, i know what they're actually after is suppressing votes themselves and making sure they stay in power. >> it's almost come call that they named the hr1 bill for the people. your reaction to hr1? >> democrats are hypocrites. news flash. candace owens is exactly right. democrats engage in the same behavior, ten times worse than what they tau cues republicans that we don't do. they're absolutely hypocrites. they want to consolidate power for all time. they want to destroy conservatives in the republican party completely so we don't even compete in the arena of

ideas. that is what is so dangerous about a biased media. >> and it's interesting that president obama brought up the filibuster back then during the funeral calling the filibuster a relic of jim crowe. so we have joe biden and the democrats running everything now in washington. let's take a look at their policies, senator, first up, the border, we have this graphic here that we want to show from the customs and border patrol, showing us what has taken place since the biden administration has taken down all of president trump's rules and regulations around illegal immigration. your reaction to the thousands of migrants showing up at our borders and walk us through this chart of border apprehensions. >> that's the chart that i created years ago as chairman of homeland security. we keep updating it and what it shows is average daily apprehensions. you see the crisis point in the

spring, early summer of 2019 and you have to understand the color coating in this. blue are family units and red are unaccompanied children. this is sparked in 2012 with deferred action on childhood arrivals and people in central america learned to exploit our lenient immigration laws so this is predictable what's happening. you can see that president trump by and large solved the problem of unaccompanied children and family units by his return to mexico policy, the agreements he entered into with mexico and central america and joe biden unraveled all of that and so you see the predictable crisis. we are up now to over 4,000 people per day being apprehended at the bore of deer. that's a caravan per day and the human toll that will take, the fact that human traffickers take advantage of the situation, drug traffickers do. this isn't anything that's a

surprise. we held hearings on this, how single males in 2014, only 1% were coming in with a child. by 2019, 50% were because they're exploiting the family unit loophole. and they were actually children being sold to people so they could come in as family units. the involuntary serveitude, some being put into stash houses, they're being beaten, used as blackmail and ransom in central america. this is inhumane. this what is the biden administration says we're doing this because we're going to be more humane. no you're sparking a human toll and inhumanity. >> we'll talk with steven miller about this. there's a gag order now on the border patrol agents now, not allowed to talk to the press. i've been speaking with my sources there and it's an unofficial gag order. real quick on the agenda and spending and taxes, our producer abby saw this at the equinox

gym, the equinox gym is going to be forced to pass on the tax increases to the people, the customers. they put this sign up saying that we're reaching out to share and update. new york state is mandating that equinox and other similar businesses in new york collect a 4 and-a-half percent sales tax on membership dues, including personal training, packages, et cetera. that's going to start on april 1, 2021. because new york state is raising taxes and we are expecting the biden administration to announce a major tax increase in the next month. what can you tell us about the next part of their agenda after the $1.9 trillion spending package? >> you're going to see a big difference between republicans and democrats. republicans by and large believe that it's your money. and that we have to tax to a certain extent to carry out functions of government. democrats believe it's all government's money and they're generous to allow you to keep

any of your hard earned work. so they're going to start taxing success and it's going to kill a recovery. and right now, the recovery -- the economy's ready to take off. real disposable income increased at 5.5%, total savings increased $1.6 trillion. you combine that with pent-up demand because of all the shutdowns, our economy is ready to take off as long as democrats don't snuff it out. they passed a $1.9 trillion spending relief even though they have a trillion dollars unspent from the original 4 trillion and they'll take credit for a good economy, won't take the blame when tax increases do long-term harm. >> all right, we'll be waiting for that announcement from the administration. senator ron johnson, good to see you as always. >> have a good day. >> and to you. he when we come back, former white house senior advisor steven miller is here to take us behind the curtain of the border

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el paso texas last week. right now, more than 14,000 unaccompanied minors are in federal custody. it is expected to get even worse as the weather gets warmer, as we reported. the democrats meanwhile are still refusing to call this is a crisis. here's house speaker nancy pelosi on friday. >> biden administration has this under control. it will take -- it is changed and it will take some time but it is value's based humanitarian in its aspects, pragmatic with a plan to get things done and not just a tactic on the part of the republicans because they're bankrupt of ideas on how to improve the lives of american people. maria: unbelievable. pragmatic with a plan. joining me now is the chief architect of the trump administration's immigration policy, former senior advisor steven miller.

thank you for being here. >> good morning. maria: we have so much to get to this morning. you heard nancy pelosi. this morning, the department of hem land security secretary alejandro mayorkas is out doing the rounds. he was on fox news sunday this morning as well, saying pretty much that this is trump's fault, blaming it on the trump administration and actually saying that the border is closed. what can you tell us about what you heard from mayorkas this morning? >> i was stunned by the dishonesty of mayorkas' presentation. he looked into the camera and he lied, he blatantly lied. there's no polite way to put that. he inherited from the trump administration the most secure border we've had in this country, between our public health measures known as tile tell 42, the migrant protection protocols, known as remain in mexico, the immigration reforms, i could go on. you never had a better system for humanely returning illegal

immigrants back to their home country. we have a crisis, a spiraling massive, growing, surging crisis for one very simple reason. the biden administration terminated all of that to you adopt a policy of catch and release. and so when mayorkas says as a he did today that the border is closed, he is lying. first of all, if you arrive at the border, illegally, 17 or younger, traveling alone, you are resettled into the u.s. interior and you're taken to the city and destination of your choice. that is not a closed border. as for family units, and those numbers are growing steadily, than are overwhelming border agents, according to my best sources roughly 80% of family units that arrive at the border are likewise released into the u.s. interior. some border agents are driving them directly to nongovernmental

organizations in border towns, known as ngos. other times they're being sent to i.c.e. and then i.c.e. is releasing them under a program known as atd or alternative to detention which is a fancy way of saying you're going free. so we have an open border right now in this country and as far as nancy pelosi is saying this is value's based, what value, what humanitarian principle is served by rewarding and encouraging the you brutal monstrous trafficking of minors? what value or humane tearan principle is served by making it easier for criminal organizations to savagely assault innocent men, women and children for profit? because that is what is happening right now. maria: yeah. well, we're going to take a break and continue this conversation but as we go to break, i just want to remind people no one should be surprised. here's then candidate joe biden telling us what to expect.

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maria: it is pretty much what he tweeted, this is what a crisis looks like. where do they go now once they

do get into america via the texas border? >> yes. so it's an important point to say it's not only a crisis for our border states but for every state. because once people illegally enter the united states of america and they're released they go to every city, state and town that has obviously huge implications for public safety, tax base, financial and health security and the spread of covid as we're trying to stamp that out. one point i want to drill down on is the issue of how the administration is handling unaccompanied minors. they're typically between 14 and 17 years of age. of course, they could be younger than that. this administration including susan rice has said publicly that their policy is that they want to humanely deal with the minor crisis by which i suppose they mean by incentivizing the largest global trade in child trafficking and smuggling by

guaranteeing that the aim of traffickers and smugglers is accomplished which is absolutely immoral. here's another point that's not thought about on this. the administration's policy of reset link any 17-year-old or younger who is trafficked to our borders is a global policy of family separation. what they are saying to every family on planet earth is split off your own children and put them into the hands of coyotes and cartels if you want them to gain entry to this country. so instead of working through an actual humanitarian refugee process where you go in the country with the un and have a refugee screening process, instead of doing that, they are incentivizing long-term family separation. that is the policy of the biden administration. and that needs to be said. it needs to be said clearly. maria: well, there's also a

major drug issue, narcotics as well as covid. we had the secretary of homeland security, mayorkas, admitting yesterday that they're releasing migrants into border communities without covid testing and that was a mistake. but that's what we have been doing, releasing them without covid testing. another person on this program made a point last week during fox news primetime that we have a heroin problem in this country and a it starts at that border. >> real quick. number one, the humanitarian crisis the administration created throwed a drug crisis. i talked to border agents who said they've seen large increases in hard narcotics like meth, like fentanyl, like cocaine, coming across the border while border agents are having to spend their resources dealing with the humanitarian crisis because of the open border policy. secondly, i.c.e.'s interior

enforcement mission which involves removing dangerous criminals including drug dealers has been shut down. in a normal year i.c.e. removes from the interior 2,000 to 3,000 people a week or arrests 2,000 to 3,000 people a week and typically the vast majority of them are criminals. that number has been shrunk by as much as 90%. that means thousands of criminals, every single week, are being set free including people involved in the drug trade to reoffend in our communities. i ask you, is that humanitarian? is that value's based? is that just? no. it is morally monstrous and indefenseable, maria. maria: it's absolutely extraordinary. look, steven, i know you've been working with certain attorney's generals to try to help them communicate and push back on the radical agenda. tell me what's going on there.

this week i spoke with several ags from across the country who have problems with everything from the xl pipeline being canceled to the border crisis to the fine print in the spending package that says they can't cut taxes for five years because they're getting federal money. what are you doing with ags across the country and what should states be doing now because clearly the republicans cannot stop this radical agenda. >> thank you. yes. so myself along with other former administration staffers who have an interest in upholding the great achievements that president trump occurred but more fundamentally the laws of the united states, the constitution of the united states, i've been working with our state attorneys general to make sure that they are going to article 3 courts, the federal courts, the third branch of government to protect our constitution, to protect our sovereignty and our liberty. no administration has the right to repeal dually enacted law through executive action, no

administration has the right to suspend any constitutional protection for our students because it's politically convenient to do so. this includes the immigration area and texas, arizona, florida have been leading the charge. especially saying that you can't release criminals into our communities that the law requires you to remove. i would encourage every journalist in the done tri demand from i.c.e. their internal statistics on everything hit they're getting on criminal aliens versus the criminal aliens they're removing and what you will see is there are thousands of criminal aliens in state and local custody who are no longer being picked up by i.c.e. who are being set free to commit additional crimes against innocent americans and that is heinous. maria: what a sad state of affairs. steven, we will continue to spotlight this. thanks very much for all the information this morning. steven miller joining us there

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including hong kong, taiwan, cyber attacks on the united states, economic coercion toward our allies. >> the challenges facing the united states in human rights are deep seated. they did not just emerge over the past four years, such as black lives matter. it did not come up only recently. so we do hope that for our two countries, it's important that we manage our respective affairs well, instead of deflecting the blame on somebody else in this world. maria: that was beijing's top diplomat schooling secretary of state antony blinken as the u.s.-china summit in alaska this week. president biden told reporters he's proud of blinken's performance despite china making it clear they're in charge and intend to set the rules of the road. my next guest says the trump administration was never streeted with such disrespect.

ric grenell was the u.s. ambassador to germany under president trump. it's always a pleasure to see you. thanks for being here this morning. >> thanks for having me, maria. maria: your reaction to the first face-to-face meeting the ccp? >> look, i hope that this is a reminder for jake sullivan and secretary of state blinken that when you spend four years denigrating america in order to get some sort of political leverage internally, a partisan win so-to-speak, you damage the united states because what they've done in terms of blm narratives and really tearing down our history, i mean, you look at all of the violence that the democrats clearly did -- they hyped this and messaged this for partisan political purposes over the last four years in order to gain power. that now is being used against them. and what they have to understand

is tearing down america and telling americans that they should be ashamed of our history or they should be ashamed of who we are, also sends a strong message to our enemies that we don't have credibility with them. to be lectured on american soil in alaska by the chinese is despicable and they created this. the secretary of state, jake sullivan, joe biden, susan rice, they created this dilemma. they really took the united states and they damaged us with their four-year narrative. maria: yeah. i mean, one thing that i said on fox news primetime on friday night was it's not enough to denounce the ccp as as bad. you have to believe that the free world is superior. you have to believe that democracy and liberty and freedom works and lifts many boats and is superior to

communism. but how can you believe that when you've got so much, so many people saying how bad america is. and how racist a country we are, teaching our kids critical race theory in the seventh grade. it's extraordinary. you're right. what comes out of this whole narrative, the woke left, that's reverberating across the world and china is watching our political debate carefully and closely. i agree with you. >> i would also add western europe in there because there's been a fight in western europe over of western values, of whether or not socialism is better than capitalism, to be embarrassed by capitalism and the western ideals, this is one of the things i fought hard on european soil as the u.s. ambassador to germany over. if you cannot refleck i'vely and unapologetically be for western

values in europe, to support nato with complete nato spending levels like the jeer mans should have been -- germans should have been doing or you're going to look at the russian gas pipeline and say we can buy russian gas at that level and not have the leverage over us from russia, i think that there's a whole variety of issues that the west, so-to-speak, our western allies have become really weak on and that was what president trump stood firm on. i loved that president trump said look, if you're not going to fund nato, if you're not going to fund the most successful organization in the history of the world, then why should we have it? why should america be defending europe if you don't believe in the western values and people took that as an attack on nato. i took that as a choice for the western alliance. you can either support these organizations that you say you believe in or we're going to have them crumble because you're

already picking at them and damaging them over the years by not supporting them. maria: that is a great point. i want to ask you quickly on the border, then i have to get to california. fox news flernd a senior source -- flernd a senior source with customs and border protection that there's a plan under consideration right now for border patrol agents in the rio grande valley area to begin releasing illegal border crossers who claim asigh limb without -- asylum without issuing a notice to appear, meaning they'll depart custody and won't have a court date to come back. this is extraordinary. they come to the border and we release them, no court date and they get into the interior of our country. >> look, somehow the democrats have been able to convince the media that their policy is humane, that they're being nicer

or they're being more generous to people by letting people break the line and i have to push back on this very hard. americans are very generous. we allow a million people, 1 million people a year to become american citizens in this country. but the fact is, maria, there are tens of millions more who would like to become citizens. you have to have a line. you have to be able to say to people wait in line, wait your turn and we will make a decision. what the democrats are doing right you now is breaking the line. first and second generation americans supported donald trump and the republicans in they this last election like never before. these are people who waited in line. you want to be humane? you should tell the people who waited in line that you are not going to allow line jumpers or people to rush the border. republicans have to do a better job on making sure that we take the mantel to say we want immigrants in this country.

we just want an orderly process because we have so many people. i can tell you as managing embassy berlin and embassy germany, we have a plethora of people who are waiting to come into this country and if you just all of a sudden say rush the border, we're going to have a huge bigger crisis than we have right now. maria: real quick before you go, i know that this recall of governor newsom in california is appearing real successful, a lot of people want you to become governor. i'm not going to ask you if you're going of to run or not. you just assess california for us. where are the weak spots and how can you get the economy running again and eliminate these budget deficits that have caused massive homelessness and people to leave in droves. >> well, it's a very complicated he question but california for a long time has been managed by politicians rather than people who know how to emergencies tells.

and so we're seeing just the problems with that. you can take any issue, look at covid, look at the schools closing, look at our churches closing, restaurants closing. california is the 50th state out of 50 to come up with indoor dining or churches open. we're still in lockdown here. and if you look at the numbers as the associated press has put forward, our numbers are no better, no different than florida and florida has been open so i think that you can look at gavin newsom and look at his management style and say for whatever reason, he decided to lock us down in california. he thought it was the best way to do it. crumbled our economy, caused mental health issues for students, families are devastated. this was his political decision to do this. other politicians had different political decisions that worked

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election. listen to this. >> as a member of the new jersey press association, i will do everything in my power to ensure that you are deposed if not dead. anything i can do to basically get you out of office, i will do. you are a traitor, jeff van drew and you deserve the fate of all traitors. maria: just disgusting, congressman jeff van drew joins me right now, he sits on the house homeland security committee. thank you for being here. this tape is chilling. how did it make you feel when you first came home and pressed your machine and heard this? >> well, actually i it was my wife who pressed the machine. she was home. i was in washington. that's what particularly concerned me. of course, maria, i bargained

for this. i became a congressman, unfortunately it's becoming more and more of pref vent. it doesn't -- prevalent. it doesn't worry me. i'm going to stand for what i believe and nobody is going to make me afraid. nobody is going to make me worry about it. there are two issues here that are so different and so vile, i said i'm going to speak to the police and let them do what they would do. number one, not only did he threaten me, but he threatened my wife, literally to sexually harass her. so real quickly, i'll say it because i want people to understand this. this man is a freelance reporter and does work for the ocean city sentinel and what we found out after, what he really bothered me after we got that death tape was that he was writing op-eds, editorials, stories for this newspaper and in them they

contained all this violence and filth. so in the official op-eds that went out in thousands and thousands of newspapers, he said that literally how you would my wife feel if she was grabbed by her crotch, picked up and slammed down on the car. how would the tickle feel. he said that -- maria: oh, my god. >> he said i'm a traitor and traitors deserved to be executed. he said my home should be stormed. how would i feel if my home was stormed and my family was violated. that's what he -- he actually said it in print and an editor and a publisher allowed that and thought it was okay. that's unbelievable. is this the new norm? maria: what recourse do you have? stay with us. let's slip in a short break. this is an incredibly chilling story, congressman. back in one minute with more. balanced nutrition for strength and energy.

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maria: welcome back. we are back with new jersey congressman jeff van drew. you were showing us and sharing with us some of the sick things that this activist and mob has done to you. what recourse do you have now? >> well, real quickly, you can do anything that you want to me. you can say what you want, you can disagree with me, you can threaten my life. but i will not tolerate that for my family, my wife, my children, my grandchildren. and that's where the line is drawn in the south jersey sand. so we are certainly going to take recourse and i believe press charges, talk to our attorneys and perhaps sue as well. this cannot be the new norm for america, for america journalism. it is intolerable. it's going to hurt our society. it's going to make us worse and more violent to actually think

these are things that can be print inned the newspaper or in any media. maria: look at all of these attacks and you had president biden saying that he wants unity. unity. okay. transparency. we've got none of that. he's doing things by one party rule, $1.9 trillion stimulus passed with no republican support. where are we in this country, congressman? >> look, we're in a bad place. we're on the praecipes. i'm telling everyone, the future of democracy and our republic is in all our hands. and we must come together. we must reverse course. we can't go this way or we're going to lose the greatest nation, the chinning light -- shining light of the whole world many i worry about it every single day. this is the the real deal. this is not a joke. maria: all of this as china is rising, congressman. and -- >> absolutely rising. maria: there's that. >> they're laughing at us. the other day they say we were

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